The Dark Room (YouTube)

You can't look around. You can't check your inventory. You can try weeping, but expect Australian comedian John Robertson to taunt you if you do. ("Is there anything as sad as tears only you can feel but nobody can see?") If you're going to escape from this YouTube-based puzzler, you'll need to think outside the box. Actually, that won't help you either. You're not in a box. You're in the Dark Room.

NB 1: Some endings have more than one possible path. One way is given for each. Also these are not "endings" in the sense of deaths, but in the sense of dead ends or hidden easter eggs.

NB 2: You actually do need to die to get places in this game. The "start over" buttons usually do NOT send you back to the first video, so make sure you click them!

Dead Ends:

Failure 1 Smiley Face:

Dark Room

Go north

Chuck pockets

Weep

Exit

Unplug Computer

No:

Dark Room

Go north

Check pockets

Czech pockets

"Will you ever be kind to me?"

Not in Kansas Anymore:

Dark Room

Turn on light switch

Look for light switch

Find light switch

I see

Touch wall

Touch other wall

Apologize

Smell room

"That doesn't make sense!"

Think outside box

Think outside room

Click heels together 3x

9999:

Dark Room

Turn on light switch

Look for light switch

Find light switch

I see

Touch wall

Touch other wall

Apologize

Smell room

"That doesn't make sense!"

Think outside box

Think outside room

Wank furiously

Is this normal?

Easter Eggs

Liquid Head:

Dark Room

Turn on light switch

Look for light switch

Find light switch

I see

Touch wall

Touch other wall

Blank annotation (on right hand side).

Sadness and Badness:

Dark Room

Turn on light switch

Look for light switch

Find light switch

I see

Touch wall

Touch other wall

Apologize

Smell room

Go west

Go east

Go Southampton!

Blank annotation in lower right corner.

Good Endings:

Error:

Dark Room

Turn on light switch

Look for light switch

Find light switch

I see

Touch wall

Touch other wall

Apologize

Smell room

Kill self

Lean on wall and weep

Start over

Blank annotation (middle of right side).

Alright then ("good" in the sense of "hilarious"):

Dark Room

Turn on light switch

Look for light switch

Find light switch

I see->Touch wall

Touch other wall

Apologize

Smell room

"That doesn't make sense!"

Think outside box

Run into wall

Lean against the wall

Bleed to death

Start over

Pass time

Locate the good ending

Torture

Punch man

Punch man!!

Punch man!!!!

100% Good Ending:

This requires you to download the video "Turn Around Redux", and either reverse the entire video or just the soundtrack. How you reverse it depends on your system, you can use a free editor like Audacity or you might have a program that will do it already on your computer. Listen to it and you'll receive a clue, although the clue actually has an error, and you'll need to capitalize the last letter.How to get to Turn Around Redux:

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NB 1: Some endings have more than one possible path. One way is given for each. Also these are not "endings" in the sense of deaths, but in the sense of dead ends or hidden easter eggs.

NB 2: You actually do need to die to get places in this game. The "start over" buttons usually do NOT send you back to the first video, so make sure you click them!

Dead Ends:

Failure 1 Smiley Face:

Dark Room

Go north

Chuck pockets

Weep

Exit

Unplug Computer

No:

Dark Room

Go north

Check pockets

Czech pockets

"Will you ever be kind to me?"

Not in Kansas Anymore:

Dark Room

Turn on light switch

Look for light switch

Find light switch

I see

Touch wall

Touch other wall

Apologize

Smell room

"That doesn't make sense!"

Think outside box

Think outside room

Click heels together 3x

9999:

Dark Room

Turn on light switch

Look for light switch

Find light switch

I see

Touch wall

Touch other wall

Apologize

Smell room

"That doesn't make sense!"

Think outside box

Think outside room

Wank furiously

Is this normal?

Easter Eggs

Liquid Head:

Dark Room

Turn on light switch

Look for light switch

Find light switch

I see

Touch wall

Touch other wall

Blank annotation (on right hand side).

Sadness and Badness:

Dark Room

Turn on light switch

Look for light switch

Find light switch

I see

Touch wall

Touch other wall

Apologize

Smell room

Go west

Go east

Go Southampton!

Blank annotation in lower right corner.

Good Endings:

Error:

Dark Room

Turn on light switch

Look for light switch

Find light switch

I see

Touch wall

Touch other wall

Apologize

Smell room

Kill self

Lean on wall and weep

Start over

Blank annotation (middle of right side).

Alright then ("good" in the sense of "hilarious"):

Dark Room

Turn on light switch

Look for light switch

Find light switch

I see->Touch wall

Touch other wall

Apologize

Smell room

"That doesn't make sense!"

Think outside box

Run into wall

Lean against the wall

Bleed to death

Start over

Pass time

Locate the good ending

Torture

Punch man

Punch man!!

Punch man!!!!

100% Good Ending:

This requires you to download the video "Turn Around Redux", and either reverse the entire video or just the soundtrack. How you reverse it depends on your system, you can use a free editor like Audacity or you might have a program that will do it already on your computer. Listen to it and you'll receive a clue, although the clue actually has an error, and you'll need to capitalize the last letter.How to get to Turn Around Redux:

For someone who grew up on Ian Livingstone - Steve Jackson books, it gets boring after a couple of minutes, and the fact that you seemingly can get into loops from which there seems to be no good way out should be dealt with - but this one's still a great idea.

Hilarious! And thanks for the walkthrough; I blew past some vital without realizing it. A hint for the impatient people like me:

Watch the entirety of the videos!

Oh, and another option for outside software:

Command + left arrow key in Quicktime lets you watch a video backwards (just make sure the file's compatible). It comes with all Macs, but I don't know about PCs. I think there's a free version for download on Apple's site

It did take me a while to realize that I haven't had a good "choose your own adventure"-style romp for a while. I even wrote a basic one myself way back in college (early '90s) for an HTML class I was taking.

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